El Paso school mourns students slain in Mexico

The War Next Door: Although one in five students at Cathedral High in El Paso live in nearby Ciudad Juarez and cross the Mexican border on a daily basis, the trip proved deadly for two students who were fatally shot while visiting a friend in Juarez last weekend. All three teens were killed. NBC's Mark Potter reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor:In
El Paso
,
Texas
, hundreds of students gathered today at
Cathedral High School
for a memorial service for two American teenagers. They were killed just across the border in
Mexico
. Sixteen-year-old
Carlos Mario Gonzalez
, 15-year-old
Juan Carlos Echeverri
were visiting a friend over in
Juarez
,
Mexico
, last weekend when all three were shot and killed at a car dealership.
Juarez
, which borders
El Paso
, had 3,000 murders last year alone during this ongoing drug war.